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Lauren Goode

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WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)

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Sandra Upson @supson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today at noon ET / 9 am PT I'll be talking about WIRED's special report on tech and gender with two extraordinary women, @laurengoode.bsky.social and @ejdickson.bsky.social. Join us, ask questions - there's so much to dig into. www.wired.com/story/livest...
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Submit Your Questions: Why Is Silicon Valley Still a Boys’ Club?
How are women really faring in Silicon Valley? Submit your questions to our panel and we'll give you the scoop on September 24.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you loved our @wired.com Women's package of stories and want to hear more or ask a Q, join our LIVESTREAM today at 12pm ET bsky.app/profile/wire... (Even if you *didn't* like the WIRED Women's issue, feel free to send in Q's. We're doing this so our subscribers can join the discourse!)
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Louise Matsakis @lmatsakis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
we are living in science fiction times. fascinating reporting from @laurengoode.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
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AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Excellent reporting here by @laurengoode.bsky.social. There’s a subset of people (not only men!) who do not see women as capable of same leadership/ambition/success as men (yep, despite or perhaps bc of people like Trump leading US & Elon being their hero); or view women only thru looks/sex appeal.
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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yesterday, we unrolled two more pieces— @laurengoode.bsky.social went in search of the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley, talking to all of the heavy hitters www.wired.com/story/search...
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The Search for Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Woman
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amazing THREAD 👇https://bsky.app/profile/harmancipants.bsky.social/post/3mw47wiztbs2e
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI models built on rat brain neurons—which are placed on multi-electrode silicon arrays, respond to electrical signals, get translated into code, and are then used to train models—are that much closer to reality. As in, they're now available through AWS www.wired.com/story/ai-mod...
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AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The joke only works, though, because the underlying problem is real. @laurengoode.bsky.social went looking for the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley–and her journey got complicated, quickly.
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The Search for Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Woman
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
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Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw.com · 21/09/2026
This is well worth the read -- what is power, who holds it, how does it get expressed, how does it evolve...or not.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brava @wired.com on this brilliant edition!! And thank you, @laurengoode.bsky.social 💫 www.wired.com/story/wired-...
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Women Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and Beyond
WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
WIRED asked 634 women what they really feel about their tech jobs. Their answers on AI, bias, and workplace culture paint a stark picture: women described being talked down to, mistaken for assistants, underestimated, and facing sexual harassment. www.wired.com/story/women-...
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We Surveyed 634 Women Who Work in Tech. They Let Loose
Executives happily automating their days with AI. New hires confronting bro culture. Women in tech have a lot to say—and they told it all to WIRED.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
So what *is* WIRED Women? It started as a joke at our weekly happy hour; we laughed at the idea of turning a historically dude-loving publication into a women’s rag—a tongue-in-cheek way to highlight the sorry state of women’s advancement in fields like tech and science.
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Welcome to the WIRED Women Issue
No one wants to talk about women in tech. So we will.
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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026
For our WIRED Women cover, Patti Harrison plays five (well, actually six) of the current masters of the universe—Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos (with Lauren Sánchez Bezos by his side). 🔗 www.wired.com/tag/wired-wo...
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Link to story👇🏻 bsky.app/profile/wire...
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My latest feature for @wired.com is out, and it’s part of our epic issue on the state of women in Silicon Valley, and I can’t wait for you to read it and enjoy this art 🙌💗 bsky.app/profile/wire...
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/09/2026
Happening in one hour! 🚨 Join our panel of WIRED experts for a thoughtfully curated livestream discussion answering all your questions about data centers. Subscribers get exclusive access to this Q&A! Join us at the link. 👇
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Submit Your Questions: The Great Data Center Backlash
You have questions about data centers, and WIRED has answers. Join our livestream on September 10 and our panel of experts will tell you everything you need to know.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Exclusive: A new chip startup called Kepler Computing is coming out of stealth after *7+ years* of development. The think their new approach can help with HBM and SRAM bottlenecks. But, as with all things chipmaking, scale will be one of the biggest challenges www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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A Stealth Startup Thinks It Just Hacked the Memory Shortage
Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The deal signals Nvidia’s seriousness about being steeped in the software side of generative AI development as well as in infrastructure.” Back in the day we used to call this “vertical integration”
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nvidia just made a $12.9 billion bet on open-source AI www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
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Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW, from me and @peard33.bsky.social: Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome the proposed changes to how Instagram and Facebook will work for teens—but they also think states should have demand more, and kids remain vulnerable on social apps www.wired.com/story/the-me...
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The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should have demanded more.
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Tim Ives @timives.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thanks @laurengoode.bsky.social & @peard33.bsky.social Interesting how the question changes when we look beyond individual features to how they interact. At what point does a collection of design choices become an environment, and how does that change where we locate responsibility for behaviour?
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Daisy Sitch @daisysitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"It could force small changes in the company’s growth-at-all-costs ethos and the algorithmic witchcraft with which it juices its apps." @laurengoode.bsky.social @peard33.bsky.social @wired.com
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here
Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hello, from UnitedHealth's "least-favorite reporter." www.statnews.com/2026/08/17/u...
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"In the three years since OpenAI created the head of preparedness role, four people have held it." Just picturing the team passing around a severed Head of Preparedness.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW, from @mzeff.bsky.social: "Multiple current and former OpenAI employees, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, tell WIRED they believe competitive pressures to quickly ship new AI models have made it difficult for staffers to sufficiently prioritize safety." www.wired.com/story/openai...
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The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Legal documents released today show federal law enforcement officials extensively surveilled public meetings and activists during the ICE surge, and created dossiers on political enemies. I've been busy, but will post some takeaways on this thread soon: (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Attorney: Homeland Security spied on Minnesotans who spoke out against ICE
Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...
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Petrarca @petrarca.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In a world of fucked up things, this might be the most fucked up thing I've ever read.
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Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ebay’s harassment spree against a perfectly nice couple in Massachusetts is one of the craziest stories I’ve ever covered. Six years later, the victims have finally gotten their due. from @laurengoode.bsky.social
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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
In case you happened to forget about one of the most disturbing harassment campaigns ever led by a giant tech company against its critics - a big update on the civil suit filed by the Massachusetts couple who were harassed by eBay www.wired.com/story/ebay-h...
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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yup bsky.app/profile/mark...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026
We found that thousands of parents have been separated from U.S. citizen children and at least 79 kids were doused with chemical agents. 🗓️ On July 21, join us for a virtual discussion on how children have been caught in Trump's immigration crackdown: propub.li/4fiHDSF
Text: How Children Have Been Caught in Trump's Immigration Crackdown: Join us for a discussion about how families and children are being affected in new ways by President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. Tuesday, July 21. 4 p.m. EST. Register at propublica.org/events. Events supported by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation. Image: A woman walks a young boy down a dimly lit hallway with blue walls.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Ahead of AMD's annual AI event this week, Nvidia is pulling back the curtain on its Vera Rubin design, touting early customers (including OpenAI), staking its claim in the CPU industry—and throwing shade at chiplet designs, calling it the "chiplet tax." www.wired.com/story/nvidia...
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Nvidia Wants to Own Every Chip Inside AI Data Centers
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform combines CPUs and GPUs into a single system, reflecting the company’s growing ambition to power every layer of AI infrastructure.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hi! WIRED health reporter here. Looking to speak with people who got sick with cyclosporiasis and are willing to share the gruesome details. emily_mullin@wired.com
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/07/2026
today, ny becomes the first state with a statewide data center moratorium even though the hochul data center pause is less aggressive than ny's data center moratorium bill passed in may, it's still "a gigantic step forward," one advocate told me
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New York Governor Signs First Statewide Data Center Moratorium
“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.
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adrian @crawf34.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
my most widely read piece of writing ever turned 8 today. shoutout @laurengoode.bsky.social for enduring almost a decade of meme accounts tagging us on instagram about it
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
More blockbuster reporting on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance apparatus from @wired.com An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, including labeling those identified as “LGBTQIA.” …! By @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/madiso...
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Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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OG @oliviagoddess.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Squirrel Girl strikes again!
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Dr. Matt Moyer @mo0876.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Obsessively reading the news can't be good for your health, they say. Hehe. But you get rewarded with headlines and beautiful writing about the real gems, like this story. Sure, democracy is sliding, but man, those squirrels... It helps to restore our sanity. Viva la squirrels!
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's wild out there. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
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One of Meta’s Offices Was Briefly Overtaken by a Rogue Squirrel
The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.
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Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Microsoft isn't the only tech co to conduct mass layoffs this year, but this sentence in MSFT HR chief's memo stood out: "Companies don't get to choose whether their industry changes; they only get to choose whether they change with it." By default aren't these co's the ones changing the industry?
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
NEW: The Pentagon is probing the exposure of an active-duty special operations officer whose personal information was revealed in the Dialog data. A White House National Security Council official was also exposed. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/the-pe...
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The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials
Exposed records from the private group included the personal information of a senior White House intelligence official and an active-duty special operations officer.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Qualcomm making a biiiig move: www.wired.com/story/qualco... by @laurengoode.bsky.social
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Qualcomm Buys Buzzy Chip Startup Modular for Nearly $4 Billion
Modular, one of the most promising chip software startups of the AI era, heads for a multibillion-dollar exit.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/06/2026
This whole thread. Even if you think that USAID was bad (and there are real and legitimate critiques), withdrawing USAID without an alternative or a plan is just straight-up murder.
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